[at-l] CNN Report AND Other Hiking Suggestions

[spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)]

Steve wrote:
>Jim and/or Ginny Owen wrote:
>
>>Finally - for Steve - your information source is, very simply, a dedicated 
>>hatchet job on FEMA and Bush.
>
>Hey, sometimes the Bush needs to be trimmed.

Cool - but some people need to get the facts before they drag out the 
chainsaws.
I have my own problems - MAJOR problems - with Bush.  But my problems are 
about things that are real - not made-up crap like how he "lies".  That's 
just plain BS.  We HAD the Master of Lies for 8 years.  I think he'll be a 
great ex-President.

But if one is not willing to give Bush credit for what he does right, then 
the argument becomes irrational.  If "everything" he does is viewed as evil, 
then the viewer needs to look in a mirror - cause it's their problem, not 
his.

Political rhetoric is one thing - irrational hatred is quite another.  And 
I've seen too much of both on this list.

>>It's not entirely untrue...
>
>And neither is the information you provided ;)

Yeah - I know.  At this point, NOBODY has all the facts.  If I had ALL the 
facts, I'd know why some people have been turned around and told to go back 
INTO the city.  But at least now I know why a lot of firefighters have been 
cooling their heels in Atlanta - and why the Red Cross isn't in evidence in 
NO - and why Nagin can scream about how he's not seeing 50,000 National 
Guard troopies in the city - and why the "fascism" stuff is nonsense cause 
they're apparently not letting ANYONE in - including relief personnel.  And 
why the supplies that the DOD, Red Cross and FEMA prepositioned in a virtual 
ring around the city have NOT been delivered to those who need them.  And 
why a number (how many?) people have died for lack of those supplies.  
Question - have they even allowed any of the "other" (non-LA) Guard troops 
in?  You know - the ones that ARE under Federal control.

I told you before that I wasn't cranked. And I wasn't - then.  But now I am. 
  I get really pissed when people who should know better pull this kind of 
asinine stunt and increase the body count unnecessarily.  I'll repeat - I 
wonder if any state governor has ever been prosecuted for mass murder?

And it doesn't help my mood when people who are smart enough to know better 
blow off new information and mindlessly repeat a predetermined storyline 
that no longer has any validity - if, in fact, it ever did have any at all.  
Hm - that wasn't in reference to you.

Let  me give you the other shoe(s) -
1. the racism charges may well have some validity - but if so, it ain't the 
Republicans or Bush or FEMA who are at fault.

2. if we're really, really lucky - the riots won't start and I won't have to 
start carrying again.

3. if she's really, really lucky - Blanco's security guards will stop the 
assassination attempts that are likely when this gets a little more 
publicity.

4. if the Democrats are really, really lucky and the MSM manages to bury 
this story deep enough, Louisianans "may" not do a clean sweep in the next 
election and break the 35 or 40-year Democratic stranglehold on Louisiana 
politics.  But I don't think Nagin, Blanco or Landrieu will be among those 
who are still around.  I could also be wrong about that.

5. BTW - front page news on the WaPo today - there's a LOT more to this part 
of the story - don't trip over it in the rush to trim the Bush. It's another 
piece of the puzzle that most people don't have - and ignoring it won't make 
it go away:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462.html

Walk softly,
Jim


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